Armin Kohlrausch

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Armin Kohlrausch is a leading figure in auditory perception and psychoacoustics, with a career dedicated to unraveling how humans process complex sound scenes. His primary research areas include binaural hearing, spatial audio, and the cognitive mechanisms underlying active listening. Kohlrausch is best known for his foundational contributions to binaural processing, synthesizing decades of research on how the brain integrates sound from two ears to perceive location and spatial cues. His influential work, *An Introduction to Binaural Processing* (2013), remains a key reference, with over 21 citations. Beyond theoretical frameworks, Kohlrausch has driven applied research in auditory modeling and feedback loops for intelligent hearing systems. As a principal investigator in the European FET-Open project TWO!EARS, he led efforts to design architectures that combine bottom-up sensory data with top-down cognitive feedback—a crucial step toward more natural, adaptive hearing aids and robots. His work bridges fundamental psychoacoustics with engineering, shaping how we understand and replicate human auditory attention in machines.

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1. 1
   An Introduction to Binaural Processing

   21 citations · 2013
2. 2
   TWO!EARS Deliverable D4.2 - Specification of feedback loops and implementation progress (WP4: Active listening, feedback loops & integration of cross-modal information; FP7-ICT-2013-C TWO!EARS FET-Open Project 618075)

   2 citations · 2016

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